pnrjulius comments on Reply to Holden on 'Tool AI' - Less Wrong

94 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 June 2012 06:00PM

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Comment author: pnrjulius 19 June 2012 04:01:42AM -1 points [-]

If you make the AI indifferent to its own destruction, it will almost certainly shut down in a couple of minutes. After all, being destroyed is just as good as what it was going to do anyway. (Indeed, in most models of utility maximization it would flip a coin and therefore shut itself down after an average of 2 decisions.)

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 19 June 2012 09:09:50AM 0 points [-]

The AI is only indifferent to its destruction via one particular channel, and gains nothing by trying to trigger that destruction.

But I was more thinking of making the AI indifferent to the reaction of the user "outside the model" or similar.

Comment author: pnrjulius 19 June 2012 04:02:07AM -1 points [-]

In fact, it kinda sounds like we've created an AI that suffers from serious clinical depression. "Why bother? I may as well be dead."